First set of experiments at SOLEIL

Recently, at the new French synchrotron facility, SOLEIL, the first experimental results have been obtained in spite of the technically difficult situation that is still preventing the beamline from functioning under normal operating conditions. The absorption spectroscopic experiments were done on a kidney stone, which is an agglomerate of many different nanometer-scale crystalline materials. For more information on the recent status of SOLEIL, visit http://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/